Traduction de «more strategic engagement » (Anglais → Français) :

Recognises the critical contribution of the African Peace Facility in developing the triangular partnership between the UN, the EU and the AU; believes that this Facility provides both an entry point and a potential lever for creating a stronger partnership between the EU and the AU and has proved indispensable in allowing the AU, and through it the eight Regional Economic Communities (RECs), to plan and manage their operations; considers it vital that the EU institutions and Member States remain closely engaged if the Facility is to be fully utilised and that the AU demonstrate higher levels of efficiency and transparency in using the funds; takes the view that the APF should focus on structural support rather than just bankrolling Afri ...[+++]can forces’ pay; acknowledges that there are other funding mechanisms in use, but believes that given the Facility’s sole focus on Africa, as well as its clear goals, it is especially important with regard to PSOs in Africa; considers that Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working on peace-building in Africa should be given the opportunity to contribute their views, as part of a more strategic engagement with CSOs on peace and security; remains concerned at the continuing problems of financing and political will on the part of African countries; notes the Council conclusions of 24 September 2012 which state that ‘funding, alternative to the funding from the EDF, will have to be considered’.

The Commission encourages Member States (including relevant national and regional authorities) to: · work towards better alignment and synergies of their funding instruments with EU funding initiatives; this includes their research and innovation programmes, in particular in connection with relevant Joint Programming Initiatives and AAL; · make effective use of Structural Funds, in line with the Partnership priorities, as appropriate, in particular with a view to: – enhancing the use, quality, interoperability of and access to ICT including e-health, and strengthening research, technological development and innovation; – promoting social inclusion and combating poverty, including through investing in health and social infrastructure; – ...[+++]promoting measures to fight against discrimination of older people both in accessing the labour market and in the work place (e.g. innovative, accessible and age-friendly forms of work organisation, longer healthier working lives); – fostering investments to modernise national and regional health systems, and giving priority to a shift from institutional care to community-based care, while enhancing independent living. · consider including the Partnership priorities and objectives among their strategic priorities in order to make use of structural funds; · engage in the activities of the Partnership through the procurement of more innovative and efficient solutions.

The Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan can serve as a model, by delivering processes and tools for more effectively engaging governments, industry and the research community, through a Steering Group of Member States, European Industrial Initiatives and the establishment of the European Energy Research Alliance, respectively – all based on a coherent strategic European research agenda.

The EU should empower itself - the different instruments, tools and policies at its disposal need to be used more smartly and in a more strategic way, both in bilateral work and in engagement in multilateral fora.

Vice-Admiral Maddison: This year I have said to each of the reserve divisions, through the Commander of the Naval Reserve, Commodore Dave Craig, that I want them to develop a strategic engagement strategy unique to the region and the municipality where they serve in order to develop enduring, trust-based relationships with the community they are a part of across the political, the academic, the corporate, the arts, the sports, the philanthropic sectors and to build a demand signal for more curiosity about our navy.

Representatives of more than 150 civil society organisations, academics, media, government representatives and international organisations from the Southern Neighbourhood and Europe, from the Southern Neighbourhood gathered in Brussels to launch, with the EU, a major new initiative for the Southern Mediterranean, aimed at an enhanced and more strategic engagement with civil society.

With increasing levels of social engagement, many donors are becoming more strategic in their giving as well.

The main challenge will be to further develop cooperation channels and mechanisms with external partners, especially the US, which will enable the EU to engage with these partners more effectively and in a more structured way, both at the strategic and at the practical level. Such reinforced cooperation should not only focus on internal security aspects but also on third countries and regions identified as common priorities in combating terrorist threats, such as Afghanist ...[+++]an, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia or the Sahel region. EU agencies, in particular Europol and Eurojust, should continue to be closely involved in the cooperation with external partners to strengthen the EU added value.

Partnership for Peace was a scheme to create affiliate states of NATO by bilateral agreements by which 27 or more European states, including Russia and its former satellites, could equally engage in intensive steps of co-ordination including joint military exercises, active exchanges between ambassadors within the NATO context, education and increased awareness of NATO standards, active discussion of mutual political, strategic and military proble ...[+++]ms, and participation with NATO in peacekeeping missions such as Bosnia.

For example, for a group such as Jammah Islamiyah, if strategic intelligence was acquired from the community that they were attempting to have more of a presence in Ontario and to engage in criminal activity such as auto theft, there is a strategic application for that situation, and the federal government should be advised so that they can take steps vis-à-vis immigration, et cetera.